ICDL – Perform Advanced Presentation Functions (Microsoft PowerPoint) Advanced Level 2-days

1. Presentation Planning

Audience And Environment

• Understand how audience demography and knowledge of subject impacts on planning of a presentation.
• Understand venue considerations.

Design, Content And Layout

• Understand timing considerations.
• Understand that presentation dialogue is supported by graphical objects and text. Understand the importance of limiting the level of detail of graphical objects and text.
• Understand the importance of using a consistent design scheme and adequate colour contrast.
• Be aware of accessibility design considerations.

2. Slide Masters And Templates

Slide Masters

• Insert a new slide master, new title master.
• Edit slide master layouts.
• Apply a custom slide master to specified slides.

Templates

• Create a new template, theme.
• Modify a template, theme.

3. Graphical Objects

Formatting Drawn Objects

• Apply background fill effects to a drawn object.
• Apply a transparency effect to a drawn object.
• Apply a 3-D effect and settings to a drawn object.
• Pick up a style from a drawn object and apply it to another drawn object.
• Change the default formatting for new drawn objects.

Formatting Pictures, Images

• Adjust picture, image brightness and contrast.
• Display a picture, image in greyscale, black and white, washout format.
• Change colours in a picture. Restore original colours in a picture.

Handling Graphical Objects

• Display, hide ruler, grid and guides. Move guides. Turn on, off snap objects to grip.
• Position a graphical object on a slide using specified horizontal and vertical co-ordinates.
• Distribute selected graphical objects horizontally, vertically relative to a slide.
• Crop a graphical object.
• Proportionately, disproportionately rescale a graphical object.
• Convert a picture to a drawn object and edit the drawn object.
• Save a graphical object as a file format.
• Omit, display background graphics on a slide, slides.

4. Charts And Diagrams

Using Charts

• Format chart title, legend, data labels, axes labels.
• Change the chart type for a defined data series.
• Change the gap, overlap between columns, bars in a chart.
• Format columns, bars, plot area, chart area to display an image.
• Change scale of value axis.

Using Diagrams

• Create using built-in options or other available drawing tools a diagram.
• Add, move, delete shapes in a diagram.
• Add, change, delete connectors in a flowchart.

5. Multimedia

Movies, Sound

• Insert movies to play automatically, on mouse click.
• Insert sounds to play automatically, on mouse click.

Animation

• Change custom animation effects and settings. Change sequence of custom animations in a slide.
• Apply automatic settings so that bulleted points will dim to a specified colour after animation.
• Animate chart elements by series, by category, by elements in series. Animate, do not animate chart grid and legend.

6. Enhancing Productivity

Linking, Embedding

• Insert, edit, remove a hyperlink.
• Insert an action button. Modify settings to navigate to a specified slide, custom show, file, URL.
• Link data into a slide and display as an object, icon.
• Update, break a link.
• Insert an image from a file with a link to the file.
• Embed data into a slide and display as an object.
• Edit, delete embedded data.

Importing, Exporting

• Merge slide(s), a complete presentation, a word-processed outline into an existing presentation.
• Save a specified slide as a file format.

7. Managing Presentations

Custom Shows

• Create, show a named custom slide show.
• Copy, edit, delete a custom slide show.

Slide Show Settings

• Apply timings to, remove timings from slide transitions.
• Apply settings to a slide show so that it loops continuously when played, does not loop continuously when played.
• Apply settings so that slides advance manually, advance using timings if present. Apply settings so that slide show is presented with animation, without animation.

Slide Show Control

• Add, erase pen annotations during a slide show.
• Display black, white screen during a slide show. Pause, restart, end a slide show.